what's a good food recipe for a starving student?
only 2-3 ingredients which can be bought cheaply...
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easiest and cheapest food recipes
Submitted by chycheouts, 02-10-2020, 02:22 AM, Thread ID: 182452
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02-10-2020, 02:22 AM
#1 RE: easiest and cheapest food recipes 02-10-2020, 04:02 PM #2 Jacket/baked potato with butter, or with coleslaw if you can get it. 
That's what I used to eat a lot of, with a tzatziki-like topping of cucumber, yoghurt, and garlic. All cheap ingredients but really tasty!
Buy a big bag of frozen mixed veggies, some rice and some eggs, and you can have a basic vegetable fried rice for good protein and vegetables.
If you like soup, save any scraps you have from prepping vegetables (like broccoli stems, carrot peels and ends, bits of vegetables that are going a bit soft so you don't want to eat them raw. Freeze them and then when you've got a decent amount, make a scrap soup by mixing them with a stock cube , water, and any herbs or spices you have. Blend it up and you'll have a meal for a few days.
Toast is always a good go-to, as well!
02-10-2020, 04:02 PM
#2 Jacket/baked potato with butter, or with coleslaw if you can get it. That's what I used to eat a lot of, with a tzatziki-like topping of cucumber, yoghurt, and garlic. All cheap ingredients but really tasty!
Buy a big bag of frozen mixed veggies, some rice and some eggs, and you can have a basic vegetable fried rice for good protein and vegetables.
If you like soup, save any scraps you have from prepping vegetables (like broccoli stems, carrot peels and ends, bits of vegetables that are going a bit soft so you don't want to eat them raw. Freeze them and then when you've got a decent amount, make a scrap soup by mixing them with a stock cube , water, and any herbs or spices you have. Blend it up and you'll have a meal for a few days.
Toast is always a good go-to, as well!
That's what I used to eat a lot of, with a tzatziki-like topping of cucumber, yoghurt, and garlic. All cheap ingredients but really tasty! Buy a big bag of frozen mixed veggies, some rice and some eggs, and you can have a basic vegetable fried rice for good protein and vegetables.
If you like soup, save any scraps you have from prepping vegetables (like broccoli stems, carrot peels and ends, bits of vegetables that are going a bit soft so you don't want to eat them raw. Freeze them and then when you've got a decent amount, make a scrap soup by mixing them with a stock cube , water, and any herbs or spices you have. Blend it up and you'll have a meal for a few days.
Toast is always a good go-to, as well!
RE: easiest and cheapest food recipes 02-10-2020, 06:11 PM #3 You can make a killer risotto so easily. There's definitely purists out there who would have my head. But you could go as simple as some Arborio rice, fried in a pan with some oil for a few minutes, and then add in like some stock with a 3:1ish ratio with the rice (You can play this by ear).
Add some parmesan at the end and bam - pretty delicious meal right there. You can add Mushroom, Peas, Chroizo, Bacon, etc for some more flavour. I also can't recommend Thyme enough, realllly brings it up a notch.
02-10-2020, 06:11 PM
#3 You can make a killer risotto so easily. There's definitely purists out there who would have my head. But you could go as simple as some Arborio rice, fried in a pan with some oil for a few minutes, and then add in like some stock with a 3:1ish ratio with the rice (You can play this by ear).
Add some parmesan at the end and bam - pretty delicious meal right there. You can add Mushroom, Peas, Chroizo, Bacon, etc for some more flavour. I also can't recommend Thyme enough, realllly brings it up a notch.
Add some parmesan at the end and bam - pretty delicious meal right there. You can add Mushroom, Peas, Chroizo, Bacon, etc for some more flavour. I also can't recommend Thyme enough, realllly brings it up a notch.
RE: easiest and cheapest food recipes 03-10-2020, 12:55 AM #4 pasta, shrimp, better than boullion, green onions. Easy and super delicious!
03-10-2020, 12:55 AM
#4 pasta, shrimp, better than boullion, green onions. Easy and super delicious!
RE: easiest and cheapest food recipes 03-10-2020, 01:00 AM #5 pasta tuna lemon juice yeahhh boiii maybe mix a little of the pasta water with the tuna.
03-10-2020, 01:00 AM
#5 pasta tuna lemon juice yeahhh boiii maybe mix a little of the pasta water with the tuna.